I scoff, holding myself back from screaming in her face that Andre is a bigger bastard than she thinks he is and he is doing this on purpose. “You don’t get it, he is doing this to mess with me!” Something snaps inside of her. I don’t hear it but it’s there in her eyes, in the way her pupils enlar
LESLIE'S POVUneasiness and excitement prickles my insides at the same time. The uneasy feeling started the moment I stepped into the car and it drove away from the hotel. I suddenly didn’t feel as confident as I felt when I was telling Kian off, nor did I feel so sure I could handle a one-on-one m
“Andre Sanders,” he introduces.I turn fully to him, gathering myself together and pushing out my best smile as I take his warm outstretched hand. “Leslie Jackson.” I notice how his eyebrows hike up at my name but I don’t quite understand why he reacted to it like that. “It’s nice to finally meet
KIAN’S POVShe almost saw me. Heck, I was certain she did and was already shitting bricks thinking about how exactly to explain why and how I’m here. But Andre—the bastard—snagged her attention and I relaxed. Though, not quite fully. I relaxed because she didn’t see me but I’m still as tense as ev
LESLIE’S POVAndre makes it so easy to relax around him.My nerves have calmed and the uneasy feeling is long gone. The dance had helped but it was mostly the small talk we exchanged while we danced. It was almost like he could sense that this was my first real meeting as a designer and tried to ma
Kian said he was an old friend, surely he must have told him about our relationship while setting up this meeting. But with the way Andre peers at me with interest, I can’t tell if he knows or not so I just answer the best way I can. “We used to be close.” As in we used to be married until he cheat
KIAN’S POVMy swing at Andre is fury induced—red hot fury that started off as anger until it climbed too high for me to control. My knuckles cracked painfully but the satisfaction of hearing Andre’s groan of pain makes me want to smash him in the face again. My first blow already sent him falling b
“And what has that got to do with the darned dress you got her? How you shamelessly flirted with her all night and your goddamn hand in my wife’s hair!” I yell in his face, only realising my mistake after the words left my mouth. “Wife?” Silence settles in the room the moment Leslie says that. Whe